Grants up to $50K will facilitate forming new collaborations or expanding existing collaborations between regular rank faculty in Medicine and Engineering. Proposed projects should benefit human health by providing important disease insights, or developing technologies to aid in disease prevention, diagnosis, or treatment. The desired outcomes of the projects are eventual development of a commercial product and/or translation of the research into clinical practice. Proposals for novel/innovative approaches that may have bearing on local/national/global management of the coronavirus pandemic, e.g. for surveillance, diagnosis, therapy, management of patients with confirmed or possible COVID-19, or protection of health care workers, may be submitted to MEDx anytime.